[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Two new documents re: UBL Methodology for Code List and Value Validation
cc: UBL TC, UBL Dev, Code List Representation TC, XML Dev Controlled vocabularies (code lists, identifier lists, etc.) are used in many business documents and published XML vocabularies. Business documents are often exchanged in trading partner relationships that impose business-level constraints on top of committee-standardized controlled vocabularies, while still packaging the information in the committee-standardized document schemas. The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) Technical Committee publishes document constraints in the form of document schemas and code lists, using a two-pass validation strategy. The OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee is publishing genericode, an XML vocabulary for expressing controlled vocabularies as an enumeration of values combined with meta data. Today I revised the documentation and stylesheets for the UBL Methodology for Code List and Value Validation that uses genericode: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=23703 - additional diagram for the context of the methodology - additional section on the layering of value constraints - bug fix in stylesheets re: use of "Code" in item names - use of UTF-8 encoding for all XML artefacts - various documentation clarifications and polish - no schema constraint changes from the previous revision Version 1.0 of the UBL Methodology is awaiting the standardization of version 1.0 of the genericode vocabulary, which is currently in progress. Since specifications are not, typically, tutorial in nature, I've also written a fabricated case study (based on a real committee requirement for the OASIS Customer Information Quality Technical Committee) of adaptations a company or a standards committee might want to perform in order to convert a validation strategy based solely on XSD into a two-pass combination of XSD for structural and lexical constraints and ISO/IEC 19757-3 Schematron for value constraints for controlled vocabularies as implemented by the UBL Methodology: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=23711 This case study demonstrates that the methodology is not reserved only for UBL documents but can be used by anyone creating XSD schemas who wants to layer value constraints in a user-specified fashion. Extending and restricting the values used for controlled vocabularies is shown. The differences between list-level, item-level and instance-level meta data are described. The case study goes step-by-step over the creation of various artefacts that an organization would need to publish for a default set of code lists, while allowing their community of users to adapt these code lists to specific business requirements between trading partners. By formalizing these concepts into declarative files that can be exchanged as part of a trading partner agreement, each trading partner can create their own run-time implementations of these files for their respective environments. As more projects are considering deploying this methodology, I'm getting more questions that end up clarifying and polishing the documentation. I welcome any feedback for improvements. Revisions to the above documents will be traceable through the OASIS repository links cited, so if you are reading the archives then be sure to check for the latest version of each package. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken -- World-wide corporate, govt. & user group XML, XSL and UBL training RSS feeds: publicly-available developer resources and training G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ Box 266, Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 +1(613)489-0999 (F:-0995) Male Cancer Awareness Aug'05 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
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